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rstudio::conf, the conference for all things R and RStudio, will take place January 17 and 18, 2019 (Thursday and Friday) in Austin, Texas. It will be preceded by Training Days on January 15 and 16 (Tuesday and Wednesday). Early Bird registration is now open!
Conference: Thursday January 17 - Friday January 18, 2019
Join host and RStudio Chief Scientist Hadley Wickham along with keynote speakers David Robinson, Chief Data Scientist at DataCamp; Felienne Herman, assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology, founder of Infotron, teacher of Lego Mindstorm, co-founder of the Joy of Programming conference and a host of Software Engineering Radio; and Joe Cheng, RStudio CTO and creator of Shiny and RPubs, to explore the state of the art and future of data science.
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Have you embraced the tidyverse? Do you now want to expand it to meet your needs? Then this is a NEW two-day hands on workshop designed for you! The goal of this workshop is to take you from someone who uses tidyverse functions to someone who can extend the tidyverse by:
Writing expressive code using advanced functional programming techniques Designs consistent APIs using analogies to existing tools Uses the S3 object system to make user friendly values Can bundle functions with documentation and tests into a package to share with others.
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The Joint Statistics Meetings starting August 8 is the biggest meetup for statisticians in the world. Navigating the sheer quantity of interesting talks is challenging - there can be up to 50 sessions going on at a time!
To prepare for Seattle, we asked RStudio’s Chief Data Scientist Hadley Wickham for his top session picks. Here are 9 talks, admittedly biased towards R, graphics, and education, that really interested him and might interest you, too.
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Shiny 0.12 has been released to CRAN!
Compared to version 0.11.1, the major changes are:
Interactive plots with base graphics and ggplot2
Switch from RJSONIO to jsonlite
For a full list of changes and bugfixes in this version, see the NEWS file.
To install the new version of Shiny, run:
install.packages(c("shiny", "htmlwidgets")) htmlwidgets is not required, but shiny 0.12 will not work with older versions of htmlwidgets, so it’s a good idea to install a fresh copy along with Shiny.
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We’ve added a new cheatsheet to our collection. Data Visualization with ggplot2 describes how to build a plot with ggplot2 and the grammar of graphics. You will find helpful reminders of how to use:
geoms
stats
scales
coordinate systems
facets
position adjustments
legends, and
themes
The cheatsheet also documents tips on zooming.
Download the cheatsheet here.
Bonus - Frans van Dunné of Innovate Online has provided Spanish translations of the Data Wrangling, R Markdown, Shiny, and Package Development cheatsheets.
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